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The Taliban: A Study Of Book Collections On The Taliban In Academic, Public And West Point Libraries., Seamus O'Scanlain

Publications and Research

The purpose of this study was to document and compare the extent of book collections on the topic of the Taliban in selected academic libraries in New York and New Jersey, the New York Public Library and the military academy at West Point.

Open-Access Electronic Textbooks: An Overview, Steven Ovadia

Publications and Research

The article presents an overview of open-access electronic textbooks, also known as open education resources. The article explores projects like Flat World Knowledge, Connexions and Community College Open Textbook Project.

An Early Introduction To The Google+ Social Networking Project, Steven Ovadia

Publications and Research

The article reviews the Google+ social network.

Managing Citations With Cost-Free Tools, Steven Ovadia

Publications and Research

The article explores cost-free bibliographic management tools for managing citations. This includes Zotero, Mendeley, and citeulike. There is also a short discussion of BibTeX, which is often used with LaTeX document markup.

Quora.Com: Another Place For Users To Ask Questions, Steven Ovadia

Publications and Research

The article offers information on Quora.com, an online question-and-answer service reminiscent of reference. Librarians providing virtual reference might want to monitor Quora informally, just to see what kinds of questions emerge and whether they might be questions from a local population.

Bundles, Big Deals, And The Copyright Wars: What Can Academic Libraries Learn From The Record Industry Crash?, Edward P. Keane

Publications and Research

This article reviews the contention that U.S. laws favor copyright owners over consumers, and pre-existing models over innovation. The relationship of commercial publishers to the Open Access movement is compared to that of the creators/users of file sharers and the Record Industry. The library literature bears out the contention that journal publishers have exhibited some of the behaviors that contributed to the decline of the major record labels. Librarians who support free scholarship will find the music industry plight instructive; just as iTunes fulfilled consumer demand, Open Access and other alternatives will transform publishing.

Other People’S Money: Adapting Entrepreneurial Techniques To Build Capital In Challenging Economic Times, Robert Farrell

Publications and Research

Drawing on the “predator” model of entrepreneurship put forward by Villette and Vuillermot in their 2009 book “From Predators to Icons,” this article argues that challenging economic times reveal that self-funded, collaborative information literacy models have in many cases unsustainably overstretched staff and budgets. In such circumstances, it is necessary for librarians to shift to an entrepreneurial approach that seeks profitable opportunities funded by parties other than the library in order to build capital for current and future instructional services. Following Villette and Vuillermot, the article seeks to refute a cultural myth that sees the entrepreneur as someone who is …

Reappraising Leonard Rapport's "No Grandfather Clause" At Thirty, Ashby Crowder

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Identifying enduring value in records is elemental to the concept of archives. Consequently, the question of reevaluating past determinations of endurance goes to the core of archival theory. Despite the substantial professional literature on the appraisal of records, relatively few archival scholars or practitioners have analyzed how and whether archivists should revisit original appraisal decisions.1 Professional organizations are only beginning to deal with the issue formally. While archivists could benefit from more professional guidance in reappraisal, the small amount of literature that does exist suggests a consensus that reappraisal, when done properly, can be a component of sound collections management.

Pace 9/11 Oral History Project, Maria T. Iacullo-Bird, Ellen Sowchek, Jennifer Thomas

Cornerstone 2 Reports : Community Outreach and Empowerment Through Service Learning and Volunteerism

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Ilrc Connection, Volume 1, Issue 4, Rachel Elaine Schwedt, Courtney Marie Hampton

Jerry Falwell Library Newsletter

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Library Holiday Hours; January 20-26 Library Classes, Vol 9 (1), Texas Medical Center Library

Insider Express (2003-2013)

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Print Or Perish? Authors’ Attitudes Toward Electronic-Only Publication Of Law Journals, Richard A. Danner, Kiril Kolev, Marguerite Most

Faculty Scholarship

An increasing number of U.S. law journals post at least current issues in freely accessible PDF and (in some cases) HTML formats on their web sites. Yet, perhaps without exception, the journals that make their articles freely available on their websites also continue to publish print issues in the face of declining subscription numbers, and law libraries' growing disinterest in collecting and preserving journals in print. As universities reduce staff, freeze open positions, eliminate salary increases, and cut library budgets, why have law schools continued to subsidize print publication of journals that are accessible in electronic formats? Among the reasons …

Accommodating Employees With Disabilities: Perceptions Of Irish Academic Library Managers, Anne-Marie O'Neill, Christine Urquhart

Articles

In recent years a significant amount of the literature in the field of librarianship has focused on providing greater access to library facilities to clients with disabilities. There has been constructive debate about accessible buildings, ergonomic design of library facilities, and assistive technologies; but, what of individual people with disabilities who wish to work in libraries? Does the concern for accessibility extend to their employment in the library workplace? What is happening in Irish academic libraries to accommodate them in their employment and achieve equality of opportunities?

[Review Of] Organizational Storytelling For Librarians, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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The Quarterly Interview: Tony Stamatoplos, Anthony Stamatoplos

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

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Faculty Library Satisfaction Survey 2010/11, Kaya Van Beynen, Carol G. Hixson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

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Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2011 - 2012, Tina M. Neville, Kaya Van Beynen, Carol G. Hixson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

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Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2010 - 2011, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

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Receptivity To Library Involvement In Scientific Data Curation: A Case Study At The University Of Colorado Boulder, Kathryn Lage, Barbara Losoff, Jack M. Maness

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

Increasingly libraries are expected to play a role in scientific data curation initiatives, i.e., "the management and preservation of digital data over the long-term." This case study offers a novel approach for identifying researchers who are receptive toward library involvement in data curation. The authors interviewed researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and, after analysis, created eight design "personas." Each persona represents an aggregation of researcher attributes and can be used to target strategic relationships for nascent or emerging data management initiatives. These personas are applicable to any academic library seeking to provide data curation support.

Providing Mobile Librarian Service To A College Of Nursing To Increase Interactions And Transactions: One Wayne State University, Science And Technology Librarian's Experience, Nancy A. Wilmes

Library Scholarly Publications

A mobile librarian service to the Wayne State University College of Nursing was developed to provide in-person reference and research support. This service has been successfully used for eight semesters by College of Nursing faculty, graduate students, and some undergraduates for support of research and course work. This article will address the details and provide a description of the service.

Review Of M-Libraries 2: A Virtual Library In Everyone’S Pocket, Rebecca Tolley

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of M-libraries 2: A Virtual Library in Everyone’s Pocket. Eds. Mohammed Ally and Gill Needham. London: Facet Publishing, 2010. 273p. Paperback, $105 (ISBN 9781856046961).

A Research Agenda For International Law Librarianship, Barbara H. Garavaglia

Book Chapters

The goal of the Research Agenda for International Law Librarianship is to suggest research priorities for law librarians around the world. It is hoped that the Agenda, created by the Board of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) will inspire creative thinking and stimulate research, publication and educational programmes by law librarians and legal information professionals on the most important topics, issues, trends and developments in the field.

The Development Of An Online Plagiarism Tutorial, Kenetha J. Stanton, Sally Neal

Scholarship and Professional Work

Case Study of a pilot online plagiarism tutorial at Butler University.

Regulating Social Media Use In The Workplace, Yemisi Dina

Editorials and Commentaries

The advent of social networking sites (SNS) has become a reality of the digital age. These sites are highly interactive, creative and addictive for individuals to exchange personal, professional and social ideas but its use has also been the subject of litigation in the courts lately just like any man made invention. People using these sites have sparked a number of legal challenges that have dramatically changed the world. This raises a number of questions as to whether there are clear guidelines on the use of these tools by employers and employees.

This paper is a case commentary of one …

The Role Of Audiobooks In Academic Libraries, Catherine Stern

Publications and Research

The decision by the library of LaGuardia Community College to add audiobooks to its collection led librarians to examine the scope and the nature of audiobook use at other college and university libraries. The author created, distributed, and tabulated a survey that recorded a number of traditional uses for these materials as well as a number of interesting new possibilities and challenges.

Evidence-Based Practice Mentors: Taking Information Literacy To The Units In A Teaching Hospital, Carlos Arguelles

Publications and Research

This article describes Evidence-Based Mentors, an integrated strategy with librarian participation, aimed to motivate and assist nurses in the search and use of literature and evidence-based information for nursing practice in a teaching hospital. The librarian's role goes beyond searching the literature to involvement in teaching critical appraisal of information. It details the evidence-based process, including the use of the PICO model, the categorization of resources, and the synthesizing that lead to the change of nursing practices that impact on outcomes directly related to patient recovery, organizational effectiveness, and nursing competency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews, Wesley J. Chenault, Sarah M. Dorpinghaus, Joshua Kitchens, Jana Meyer, Renna Tuten, Carol Waggoner-Angleton

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.

Functional Analysis And The Reappraisal Of Faculty Papers: A Practical Application, Gregory Schmidt, Michael Law

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

In 2009, Provenance published an article examining the reappraisal and functional analysis of faculty papers in university archives. The present article examines a case study of the practical application of the model that emerged.

Back Matter, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Provenance Xxix, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.